A 330ml bottle with a BB of Sept 2012. ABV is stated as 6.3% on the label.

Poured into a Delirium chalice. A hazy golden colour with visible sediment and good carbonation. Forms a huge head of frothy white foam that lasts for a few minutes before subsiding to a surface layer. Aroma of sweet yeasty malt with stacks of fruity esters, especially banana. Hints of cloves and spice.

Tastes of sweet pale malt with flavours of yeast and fruit esters. Notes of banana with warming spicy hints, accompanied by faint stewed hops. No bitterness, but a dry and slightly sour finish. Coats the palate, with a mouthfeel that is smooth, tingly, and mildly astringent. Aftertaste of yeasty esters.

A decent blonde; slides down nicely. The flavour isn't too complex, but satisfying for the style. Feels like it could have more depth. Easy drinking, and worth sampling.

Drinkability: Kinda average but pleasant nonetheless with no apparent flaws or offensive aromas or notes. Price quality ratio is good. Nice take on the style, maybe a bit too much into the malty side strangling the yeast character a bit.

75 cl. bottle with cork. Golden-orange colour, big head and good retention, with a ring around that holds all the while. Smell of spices, clove, orange peel, fruits. A lot of carbonation, taste is again fruits, spices, orange peel. Drinkable, but not very much happening here.

Light-colored, the nose is sweet and fragrant with a touch of fine hops and a slight fruitiness. The mouth reminds cereals, it is delicate and soft but the flatness of hops dominates. The aftertaste is wheat and contains little bitterness. A beer a bit flat at the level of taste and not really memorable.

Pours a pale straw colour with enormous white head, made of medium-sized bubbles, webs out at the top and leaves trace of lace in isolated patches. Odd swirl of haze in the glass, not sure what to make of that. Looks quite impressive though.

Nose is quite funky and organic, with a fair vinous sourness, like oxidised chardonnay, some decent fruitiness, hints of cherry and red grape seeds and a light oak woodiness. Quite nice, fairly well balanced.

Taste is mega-funky, full of organic Belgian sourness and tart notes. A sweet and spicy sensation in the middle of it all, has hints of peach, honey and almost a cream flavour, helped out by a very creamy mouthfeel, thick and fuzzy at the edges. Finish is lightly spicy, with a slight peppery edge and aspects of a tangy citrus character as well.

Pours a brilliant shining golden colour, extremely clear with a massive rocky frothy head of white meringue foam. Lacing is excellent, the carbonation rises in a beautiful stream from the nucleation points on the glass. Looks very nice indeed.

Phenols and light booze on the nose, a good lightly sweet Belgian yeast character, but quite dry and sharp overall. Some soft notes of bread and grain, but it's subtle. Mostly we have classic dry Belgian tones. Nice.

Taste is a little more disappointing, although there is an interesting complexity to it. Light grain notes on the front, which morph through bread and yeast, before a little clean phenolic note mid-palate washes it away. Finish is the best aspect - a sweet fragrant caress of dry Belgian yeast character. Mouthfeel is light and sparkling. Very pleasant.

Not bad overall - although the dry Belgian ales are not my favourite style. Still, this is a crisp and enjoyable example, a little too phenolic in places, and not something I'd enjoy every day. Worth it once in a while.

I had this on tap at the Delirium cafe in Brussels, served in a La Gauloise glass (shaped kind of like a coffee mug). The beer was pale gold color with a big poofy cloud that sank fairly quick. The smell was OK, it had all the classic Belgian pale ale notes but none too rich. Same with the flavor, all good things (light citrus, spicy yeasties, maybe some honey) but a little muted. Nothing objectionable, a fairly solid choice.

The head, like its brothers, is magnificent. Standing foamy and tall, with great retention. Body is an opaque golden yellow with sediment present.

Smelling similar to Kasteel and other Belgian Pale Ale's, this simply isn't as good, but manages to deliver pleasant notes of citrus and yeast.

The taste is good, perhaps not as definitive as I'd like and far from unique, but good none the less. Yeast and spice with light fruits and a dry finish with some alcohol warmth is experienced. Suitable carbonation results in a fine mouthfeel.

Despite how competant it was, it's not something I'd buy again with the likes of Kasteel, Delirium Tremens, LaChouffe and Duvel on offer.

Pours with a light spritzy amber body. Bubbly yellowy white head forms about an inch thick but settles down to a small fuzz left atop the beer. very little noticeable lacing

Smell, sweet and estery acetone, fresh yeasty peaches and melon. Marzipan and other nutty notes, satay-esqe, some biscuity malt character also

Taste, crisp and spritzy mouthfeel. Crisp biscuity malt with a helping of dryish fruit and a slight alcoholic warmth. High levels of carbonation, dry lingering yeast on the finish along with some slightly metallic blood bitterness. Spicy, slightly fruity and crisp and biscuity, dry and sticky heather honey also

A bit average all round. Maybe an interesting choice as an entry into the style but its all rather lacking flavour and depth. That said it went well with a plate of guerkins, smoked salmon, carmelised onion houmous and rye bread

Poured a pale golden yellow colour with some light golden hints... White head poured fairly big then faded quickly to a light layer... Decent amount of carbonation bubbles to the surface... No lacing..

A: dark orangey golden hue, coming with a foamy/puffy white head slowly dissipating and leaving just a rimmed foam on the top; lively carbonation.
S: the fruity aroma is very dense but not intrusive, full of sour-sweet oranges, sweet lemons, a touch of melons and passion-fruits; the malty entry is equally pronounced, with vanilla-ish and bready malts, while an edge of fragrant yeastiness and mild coriander spiciness skirt the maltiness.
T: fluffy+effervescent-textured maltiness prevails upfront, with candy-sugar and lemony fruits, slowly proceeding into a mid-palate with surprisingly little+neutral flavour, before a light flow of "Chinese green-bean paste"-like exotic grainy taste develops at the back... pretty yeasty in the aftertaste, showing some savoury-sweet edges of fruity yeastiness and milder entry of spices, plus a subtle presence of dryish hoppyness. The ending touch is perhaps a touch overly sour-sweet and thin-ish, downgrading the overall performance a bit.
M&D: the initial mouthfeel is slightly too fluffy and fizzy, but softens bit by bit as the drink goes; the body is medium-minus, gearing towards the thin side in the end. Not a complex nor interesting offering this, but with a sound flavour profile and decent drinkability.

Cloudy golden colour with a large white head, some retention but no lacing. Aroma of lemon, coriander, citrus, wheat, apples and belgian yeast. Very much like a witbier. The flavour is lemony, fruity, refreshing, with some malt and almost tart. Reasonably light in body. Overall very drinkable and with some similarities to a Belgian witbier.

Pours a golden brew with a decent head. Tiny bubbles cling to the glass on the inside. The head lasts for a few minutes and then drops to a uneven layer of foam.
The smell is malty, fruity and sweet.
The taste is that of a typical blonde: fruits, malts & some light spices, although it does have a less typical nutty, slightly dry & acidic finish.
The mouthfeel is good but the carbonation was a little too aggressive in my opnion. The drinkabillity is pretty good as well.

Nothing wrong with this one. It looks good, smells good and tastes good. A nice and drinkable blonde. Definitely worth a try if you like the style.

My bottle also has the depiction of the lovely full-bosomed young lady with winged helmet and very long blonde braids, holding a bunch of wheat. A gold ribbon hangs to the left of the wheat. The bottle is a 33cl brown stubbie. Ingredients conform to the purity law. Best before 10/3/04, I opened it on 4/19/04.

Pours a cloudy even gold blonde with a couple chunks of sediment slowly making their way to the bottom as a few bubbles make their way to the top to feed the 1.5 finger white head. The feeding didn't last long, though, as the foam disappeared very quickly, leaving just film and collar without lace most of the way down the glass. The nose is fruity sweet, but not much above average for a Belgian pale. The mouth was light and quite prickly. The taste is pleasant enough - fruity sweet with some substantial malt for balance. I don't sense any hops, though. The aftertaste is more like cotton soaked in lemonade. It's not the greatest...